Dean Koontz Quotes

Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one.

You have to follow your moral compass: it's a good guide of telling you what is right and wrong.

The issues of the choice between right and wrong has to be an ongoing concern for everybody, at every age. There is no magical point in a human life when anyone is or becomes immune to the second-by-second choice to do right instead of wrong.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral criteria for how to make those choices.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

Choices of right or wrong are not presented to you in black and white. If they were, I'm sure most people would choose white.

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.

In my own life, I'm pretty good at choosing between good and bad. It's the choices between good and good I find the most difficult to make.

You must always do what you feel is right.

I do what I think is right.

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

Those ethical choices often are made every day at a time, minute by minute in ways that you may not even relate to ethics, so I'm going to walk them through the whole story from that perspective and hopefully they'll be able to walk away with something good from it.

I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.

Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

While early childhood experiences may impel, they do not compel. In the end, evil is a matter of choice.

Go by your own conscience.